Imagine a girl at a party coming up to all of the guys there and trying to get with them. The guys at the party would call the girl thirsty. Currently in our culture according to urban dictionary thirsty means “someone who will do anything for attention including sexual favors.” The word thirsty have evolved in the meaning from when it originated to now.
The origin for the word thirsty came from Middle English as the word thirst. Thirst according to dictionary.com is a “sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat caused by need of liquid”. This means that once he or she feels that your mouth is dry he or she needs to counteract it by drinking water. An example of thirst is when he wakes up from a nap his mouth becomes dry and so he will take a drink of water. Thirst could also be a physical condition. …show more content…
Thirsty could be seen as a good or bad thing. If he or she is making a guy or girl uncomfortable with the attention that is he or she should understand what they are doing is wrong. For example, he or she has a girl’s phone number for class but he or she is constantly texting her telling her how beautiful she is and how he or she should date. But by doing that he or she is making the girl feel very uncomfortable that would make you thirsty. However, if you both are showing how “thirsty” your love for each other is then it is acceptable. In the media people have used the word thirsty to mean both thirsty for a drink and a thirst meaning a thirst for the opposite sex. In the song thirsty by Mariah Carey ft. Rich Homie Quan they use the word thirsty. Rich Homie Quan says” Texting me asking where I 'm going, baby girl stop stressin ' Then I walked in like the man of the year with these thirsty girls in my section These thirsty girls want a blessin’ “. In the song they used the word thirsty meaning that she wanted the guy. This is an example of how the word thirsty was used in the
The origin for the word thirsty came from Middle English as the word thirst. Thirst according to dictionary.com is a “sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat caused by need of liquid”. This means that once he or she feels that your mouth is dry he or she needs to counteract it by drinking water. An example of thirst is when he wakes up from a nap his mouth becomes dry and so he will take a drink of water. Thirst could also be a physical condition. …show more content…
Thirsty could be seen as a good or bad thing. If he or she is making a guy or girl uncomfortable with the attention that is he or she should understand what they are doing is wrong. For example, he or she has a girl’s phone number for class but he or she is constantly texting her telling her how beautiful she is and how he or she should date. But by doing that he or she is making the girl feel very uncomfortable that would make you thirsty. However, if you both are showing how “thirsty” your love for each other is then it is acceptable. In the media people have used the word thirsty to mean both thirsty for a drink and a thirst meaning a thirst for the opposite sex. In the song thirsty by Mariah Carey ft. Rich Homie Quan they use the word thirsty. Rich Homie Quan says” Texting me asking where I 'm going, baby girl stop stressin ' Then I walked in like the man of the year with these thirsty girls in my section These thirsty girls want a blessin’ “. In the song they used the word thirsty meaning that she wanted the guy. This is an example of how the word thirsty was used in the